VPN

[All Barco no bite]

Hoping for a bit of advice from you more tech savvy folk.

A VPN, they seem to be being advertised everywhere at the moment. What are they, how do they benefit me, and is it worth investing money in each month?

Cheers,

 

[Scott Harris]

Virtual Private Network, they hide your online activity from your ISP. They are best used for sites that are blocked, like a lot of streaming, video hosting and downloading sites. If you are going to be going on a lot of blocked websites, then subscribing to a VPN would make things easier.

There are free VPN's you can use, but they come with limitations, the main one being download speed.

 

[ForeverCarefree]

I signed up for two years to Private Internet Access VPN. 

Cost me £50 and I am able to use it across 7 different devices.

Didn't need to by a VPN router or anything like that, for my Amazon Fire stick there was an app I could download to activate it on there using my username and password, same for mobile devices. 

 

[charierre]

I have been using IPVanish for 3 yrs now. No problems at all with the service, good speeds for Acestream etc. Have also used Private Internet Access, again worked well. 

 

[dkw]

Been using express vpn for quite a while, very easy service and app, though maybe a bit too expensive.